Revisiting Walt Whitman on the occasion of his 200th birthday. Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik Band 73.

Nassirn Winnie Balestrini, Matthew Aucoin's Opera Crossing (2015): Reinventing Walt Whitman for the Twenty-First Century -- Lawrence Kramer, Walt Whitman in Music: Cosmos, Eros, Mourning -- Margit Peterfy, Walt Whitman and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: The Hieroglyphics of Expression -- Sascha P�hlmann, Whitman and Everything: Playing with the Poetics of Scale -- Walter Gr�nzweig, Saluting Lumumba: The Global Whitman Network and Intermedia -- Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt, Oceanic Poetics: Walt Whitman across Pacific Currents -- Alfred Hornung, Life Writing and Diversity: Walt Whitman's Song of Myself -- Winfried Herget, Visions of a Democratic Poetry: Tocqueville - Emerson - Whitman -- Thomas Claviez, Walt Whitman: Metonymy, Contingency, and the Democracy of it All -- Sebastian M. Herrmann, "Songs" and "Inventories": Democratic Literature, the 19th-Century Data Imaginary, and the Narrative Liminality of the Poetic Catalog -- Ulf Schulenberg, "The priest departs, the divine literatus comes": Walt Whitman and Pragmatism -- Elisabeth Hecker-Bretschneider, Through the Philosopher's Lens: Whitman and Martha Nussbaum -- Marek Paryz, Military Medicine, Emotional Healing and a Reborn Community in Memoranda During the War -- Dustin Breitenwischer, On the Poetics of Creative Supremacy: Walt Whitmans "Manly Health and Training" -- Heinz Ickstadt, Walt Whitmans Antagonistic Inheritors: Ezra Pound, Hart Crane and William Carlos Williams -- Stefan Sch�berlein, Whitman in the Engine Room: MacKnight Blacks American Futurism -- Sabine Kim, T, Too, Sing America': Whitmanian Democratic Community in Langston Hughes -- Lars Kiesel, From First Person, Singular to Second Person, Plural: Walt Whitmans and Ralph Ellisons Visions of Democracy. ISBN 9783631782064